The Book Making of The Salt Prejudice

In Creating the Magic behind The Salt Prejudice

I started writing this book on the 3^rd until 10^th January 2016, so it was approximately about a week. Fiuh, pretty much?

I was writing the whole ten poems and its short stories in constant four days, and making cover design plus learning the self-publishing world of Smashwords in two days.

Everything started because I was planning to undergo a trial and error in a world of self-publishing before I might put the other books to born into the wild world. Since it always has a so-not-good stereotype in my country, so, it was a risky business though.

I had planned to put the book (The Salt Prejudice) on Smashwords since so many people has said that it was a good place to start. So yeah, I took a look and until now, I love the agreement and deals they have offered me for the promo and worldwide distribution, which are all amazingly so good to be true. But that’s all the truth. I was precisely gave it a try and threw all my luck in there. It was great. Just within an hour after I published the book, someone has already reviewed it with four stars… ooouch it made my heart so flattered.

This book once got pirated by someone’s very irresponsible on the internet. I think that was the risk of getting out a sample without applying a digital protection. But seriously, imagine the feeling that I had; it was my first time publishing a book, and within a day, somebody stole the content and sharing it without my prior consent. However, the download link is broken by now.

Note that the publication was originally on the 4^th January, because the book was a trial and wasn’t finished at that time, I gave out a free sample for three poems and its stories, until the later publication date on the 10^th January, I’ve already submitted for the new edition that available for official purchase.

 

The Creative Inspirations that Started It Out

 About inspirations; some stories inside my head appears just like a motion picture movie, literally like seeing characters in a movie that it would feel like sitting in front of a cinema, and waiting for the screen to start it out the whole things. But the main question is; How did I come up with the story?

Yes, exactly that how it did happen through the visionary dreams of my waking life—the visions. We tend to receive a glance of inspiration through unintentional visions that suddenly come on our mind. Believe it or not.

 

The Songs that Triggered the Visionary Dreams

I wrote while the music was playing constantly, which made the inspirations felt so overwhelming and more vivid inside my head. A little note: I was actually started listening to these songs when I had reached the fifth chapter “The Mountain and Hills” and precisely for chapter “The Devil in You” was the song’s called Wild Side by Cross My Heart Hope to Die, which was always hovering inside my head like a spectrum, sounded similar like the echo inside a cave. So inspired!

Here’s the playlist:

1. Atlas by Yaarrohs
2. Run by Rhodes
3. Mountain by Yaarrohs
4. You There by Aquilo
5. Red Dust by James Vincent McMorrow
6. Wild Side by Cross My Heart Hope to Die
7. Welcome the Storm by Clann (Instrumental)
8. White Flower by Clann (Instrumental)

Hope this all description introduce the magical process behind the book making of The Salt Prejudice.

 

Sincerely,

Keefe R.D